- ERNEST M. BEST. PRESIDENT JULIUS H. APPLETON, PRESIDENT OF CORPORATION ARTHUR A. BALLANTINE, TREASURER
HERBERT L,. PRATT. VICE-PRESIDENT PERCY O. DORR, CHAIRMAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WALLACE V. CAMP, ASSISTANT TREASURER

SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE

CORPORATE NAME
INTERNATIONAL YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION COLLEGE

SPRINGFIELD 9, MASS.

 

1943 March Meeting 1943

Early in February President Edward Kelleher wrote to the
officers of the Association and to the members of the executive
committee explaining his contact with certain Government Bureaus
and their request that the Association should not have a convention
during the year 1943.

The replies from the coaches to his letter led Mr. Kelleher to
call for a meeting of as many as possible of the officers and
committee men for the transaction of necessary business.

This meeting was set for March 29 and 30. These were the two
dates at which the finals of the National Invitation and the N.C.AiA.
basketball tournaments were to be run off in Madison Square Garden.

The first meeting, set for Monday, March 29, was announced over
the loud speaker at the semi~final games on Saturday evening with an
invitation to all visiting basketball coaches to join in on a general
get-together Monday afternoon at the wey pemere Hotel, just across
49th Street from the Garden.

A dozen or more coaches.were assembled when President Kelleher
called them to order and during the rather informal first hour
another dozen came. All were members or became members before
leaving. These coaches were in New. York to see the various double-
headers.

President Kelleher announced that Captain Val Lentz, our
Secretary-Treasurer, had been, rather suddenly, sent West with the
Army and hence could not be present. Howard Hobson was appointed
temporary secretary and the meeting was addressed by the President
who welcomed those present and explained the reasons for omitting
the convention. He reported on the suggestions that had come in
through the mail. He also asked all present to join in on the
discussions. While these could not be official, they could be very
helpful in aiding the committee in its formal actions of the next
day. .

The first topie was "What shall we do about officers for next
year?*® Lambert suggested that present officers continue their
duties, Where this cannot be done, that temporary appointments be
made, from Executive Committee if possible. If not, then by